150 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-20, ride through bars 21-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-75, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 30 and 43, and 16 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
22
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 18, 20, 23, 24, 26, 28 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 18, 20, 23, 24, 26, 28 and 13 more.